5.21.2016

I suppose that the first order of business would be to
congratulate Mr. Trump on his successful campaign to become the front runner of
the Republican Party for the office of the President of the United States. The Democratic Rivals, both Hillary Clinton and
Senator Bernie Sander’s continue to campaign on for their chance to oppose the
GOP’s choice and the whole Presidential Election is shaping up to be what is
being considered “The most important election in history”. I must concur, it is indeed an historic
election and is ALWAYS important, the people of the USA deserve a leader, who
has the people’s interests at heart, such as: keeping our citizens safe from
the predators of the globe who seek to kill us, an economy that produces and
keeps its citizens employed, making sure that the sick or less fortunate have
affordable options that promote productivity and not dependence, a lasting and
more economical energy source that will keep our planet here for decades to
come or at least insure what we use now will not fade away and cost thousands
of jobs and families opportunities, social security guarantees for our aging
leaders and senior citizens everywhere and in general the items that help to
shape Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness and all of this, takes
citizens casting votes based on what they know or more perfectly, perceive and
think based on perception.

***This article
contains information from each of the candidate’s web sites or other known
resources that are accepted by each candidate to be somewhat accurate. Links to the researched information will be
provided at the end of this article, for all readers to have available so they
can draw their own conclusions for themselves. ***

With all of this in mind, one person is touting they will
make America great again, the other two, clearly acknowledge this, by pointing
out what they will work to correct or improve about the USA in its current
status, a status that includes police violence, racial divides, women rights in
the work force, jobs, healthcare - the list is quite large. This implies a lot of the stuff we have now
isn’t so great and that the potential POTUS must rectify the errors that are
perceived as bringing us down, keep in mind the office to potentially hold,
represents the nation as a whole in their views, wants and goals for a global
environment as well as domestic one, here at C&J, we owe it to our audience
to make sure there is some clarity among the muddy waters surrounding the
potential candidates that want to make it better. To help narrow down some of this, in this
article we will focus our eyes on History, Education, Healthcare and Jobs and
try our best to apply each to each potential representative for POTUS, with, of
course some very important notable items.

It happens every 4 years guaranteed and sometimes becomes
like one long campaign ad that when it’s over, we exhale and either gripe and
moan or celebrate the victor - this is known as an election cycle. How it came to be this way goes back a bit in
history, in fact all the way back to our founding fathers. George Washington stunned the nation when he
said he would not seek a third term in office.
Right now, I bet you are saying “BS, a president can only run twice”,
you are correct, however, aside from a president having the ability to carry
over to a third term in times of war or national security crisis’, in those
times, the presidential candidates were directly chosen by the congress from
their own parties, right out of the very chairs they held in representation of
the people, thus, this lead to persons being selected to be viable candidates;
NOTE: when George Washington first held office, the people placed him in his first
term without opposition or majority vote due to his leadership and role in the
revolutionary war, in some history books it was the newly formed continental
congress that begged him to take the new office, the “first” election wasn’t held until the
next election cycle came around, after Washington’s 2nd term; you
know the candidates by these names: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two
candidates, two different parties with their running mates being chosen for
them as well, nothing like what we see today in the primary nomination and
election process.

Fast forward to 1832 and this is when the first national
convention was used to nominate party candidates because social pressures were
rising on changing from traditional caucus selections - the thoughts of party
caucus’s were dying out - along with the chance for improvement on actual multiple
candidates being allowed to campaign for the office, that is, qualified persons
not necessarily from Congress. Interestingly enough, in 1840 the thinking when
the conventions took foothold was that this new platform, would allow party
unification to stand behind their chosen single candidate for office, an office
elected by the people - by popular vote.

The selection process has indeed evolved over a long
period of time, including several “commission” studies and reforms that have
shaped us, into the primary election cycle we have now. The commissions were started around 1900 and
continued on with different titles all the way past the 1970’s, that is how
important this process is, and those reforms included things like preventing
states powers from selecting their own through power, corruption and other
issues that were the forefront of concern for both parties, helping to get
people registered to vote and overseeing a fair voting system, indeed, history
has taught us much in the way we should properly and fairly conduct our
selection process for candidates who wish to hold, POTUS; but that was then,
this is now and with now, comes some definitive examples of what those who
oversee elections are faced with, in choosing the best qualified person to run
a great country - one that is a shining example to the free world and its
shared values of peace and productivity.

CANDIDATES
- TRUTH AND PERCEPTION

Our first look is at Senator Bernie Sanders, one of two
choices for the Democratic nomination for POTUS in this upcoming election
cycle. A self proclaimed Democratic
Socialist but is listed as an Independent Senator, Senator Sanders continues to
campaign on, against seemingly insurmountable odds, in the hopes of swaying the
DNC to look his way as a viable choice.
In 1981, the Senator was elected to the first of 4 terms as mayor of the
city of Burlington. Then later on in his career to the Senator seat he holds
now, in fact The Almanac of American politics states that Senator Sanders is a
“practical and successful legislator”; Senator Sanders is well known for his
work in reducing income gaps between wealth classes with hard work and fairness,
he has worked directly with Veterans groups and even helped to write and
oversee the ACA currently in effect.
Within his campaign, he has touted education, healthcare and economy
reform, which, to many seems like his stance is to give away as much stuff for
free as possible while the hard working class get little, the MEME’s on social
media platforms such as Twitter and Face Book reflect that this is indeed the
heart of the issue and many take offense to this charitable perception, no one
wants this country to be the land of the handouts, we all know the American
dream, right? What makes a practical and
successful legislator, so unpopular with so many yet others adhere to so well?

According to his own campaign website
(berniesanders.com), his free education stance comes from following the models
of other countries such as Germany, Chile, Finland and Norway and according to
Senator Sanders, this proposed lowered or free tuition isn’t a new idea, in
fact up until the 1980’s, states like California offered free or lowered cost
tuition to its citizens, during the previous era, the average cost of college
per semester tuition was just 250 bucks in 1965. Senator Sanders says that by imposing a small
tax on the wealthiest of persons of Wall Street (as well as all citizens) and
making overseas companies pay their share, this income will allow for lowered
tuition while at the same time repealing the current interest rate from 4.5
percent down to 2.7 percent, thus saving college students thousands of dollars
in education costs, in essence, the Government will take over controlling the
rates and loan standards, a move that Lending Institutions and Corporate
America detest at its core. What about
Healthcare, many Americans see this as another “free” opportunity to make
others pay for those who cannot or are not willing to go out and earn it
themselves, most of the focus being illegal or undocumented immigrants getting
access to “free” money for just entering into our country.

According to the Senator, since the time of Franklin D.
Roosevelt (focusing on Democratic Presidents), America has longed for a one for
all healthcare system, where health care is a right not a privilege and America
should include themselves in the list of countries with similar coverage’s such
as: the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Rwanda, Thailand, South Korea, Moldova,
Kuwait and China. According to the
Senator, the USA spends more on healthcare than any other nation, these expenditures
come from co pays, rates, deductibles and medication costs and still don’t
include the nearly 30 million people who don’t go get regular checkups or
believe it or not, still do not have any insurance at all, by personal
choice. Senator Sanders proposes a
single payer system and to eliminate employers having to provide a plan for
their employees, thus, freeing up important business money that could be used
for re-investment rather than paying premiums that are co-paid by the employees,
costing hundreds of hours in labor, just on that math alone. Paying for this initiative will come from
several sources, including a progressive income based tax that at most will
cost someone with 50,000 a year income only 466 dollars in healthcare premiums
and costs, this along with other sources (listed on the web site) will offset
these costs and because of improved health overall, will reduce any and all
Government spending and private sector citizen spending. According to the website and proposed
platforms, the Senator is touting that those who can pay should pay their fair
share and those who cannot, can be empowered to do so by improving their
overall conditions, which sounds nothing like what the main stream media and
their mass followers are pointing out, those persons make it sound like arm
chair politics, much like an arm chair quarter back, sounds good but until you
get out of your chair you won’t know just how much it takes to get it done.

Our next focus is Hillary Clinton, a former first lady, Secretary
of State (under the Obama administration), Lawyer, and elected to the Senate in
2001, becoming the first lady to win such a seat. Her background from Yale University along
with her political experience, poised her to run for President in 2012, to
which at that time, she conceded to President, Barak Obama and now, hoping to
defeat Senator Sanders for the DNC nomination to run against Donald Trump, her
campaign has been a grueling one and for both the DNC nominees. In Hillary’s case, there is much controversy
surrounding her, including an email scandal and an attack that resulted in the
death of an ambassador as well as the investigation that followed it, an event
that Mrs. Clinton took full responsibility for and testified, vowing to “make
it right” before leaving office. A
champion for Women’s rights, Mrs. Clinton tossed her hat into the ring for the
2016 election and one must ask with all this negativity surrounding her
campaign, what does she really stand for, whose side is she on?

When it comes to healthcare, according to the campaign
website (hillaryclinton.com), Mrs. Clinton will improve on the already in place
health care law, by insuring that all families purchasing insurance on the
exchanges will not spend more than 8.5 percent of their incomes on premiums, expand
access to healthcare to immigrants (Medicaid) and set up a rewards style
program for those who live and actively pursue a healthier lifestyle as well as
defend and uphold the current ACA status, including a move to get more people
signed up than are now, and vows to fight to lower prescription costs, while
focusing on improving healthcare for women. Some math, if your medication costs
100 bucks a pill, your cost is 8.50 a pill, times 30 days, 255 for a
prescription that isn’t “generic”, food for thought. What our truth glasses
found interesting in this scenario, nothing in Hillary’s approach to fixing the
current status of Healthcare, includes Government spending, instead it vaguely
avoids it or doesn’t state directly how much the feds will pick up in Medicaid
costs; it places the cost directly on the backs of Americans, makes no
provisions for low income families and includes tax adjustments for everyone
including immigrants. She touts improved
items for Women’s healthcare issues, including pregnancy and contraceptive
practices as well as preventative issues facing women everywhere, her website
is actually vague on these issues on how she will get it done, where the money
will come from and how much will the Federal Government contribute (she does
mention giving the power to the Governors as it is now to come up with a public
option, but doesn’t explain how other than saying it is already in their hands
now). What about education, in order for
persons to receive the quality care she wants, that will take some skilled
workers, skills that come from higher education and saturate our airwaves with
how many jobs will require a college degree in the coming years.

According to her platform, students won’t have to pay for
books, fees or tuition to attend a four year college, she intends to help
offset these costs by having each student work 10 hours a week and contributing
their part (so…the ‘free’ stuff actually comes from making students get a job
and giving her administration their income to pay for college that will be free).
Note: ask any student how high some of the books are for their courses, you won’t
find any 20 dollar books that are for PSY 101, guaranteed; Families will also
do their part by contributing to their kids’ educational needs in this system
known as the College Compact. It will
use the Pell Grants to pay for living expenses as well as educational ones and
that colleges will be responsible for controlling costs of attaining the higher
education, at current, credit hours can cost as much as 450 dollars per credit
hour (keep in mind most university systems receive state funding, not necessarily
just federal funding). Everyone will be
able to refinance their existing loans to gain lower payments and borrowers
will never pay more than 10 percent of what they make. Let’s do a quick math gambit, yes? A doctor’s average salary is 185,000 a year,
so 18,500 dollars of this income will be dedicated to repaying debt, broken
down and divided by 12 month calendar year, you are paying over 1000 a month
maximum, granted not everyone is a doctor, but you get the idea, a literal
house payment in loan repayments, isn’t this what we are griping about now? Note:
None of her Education and Healthcare reform plans are a focus on social
media, instead, it’s imprison Hillary for her crimes in the email scandal and
the tragic event in Libya, nice distraction indeed.

Finally, we turn our attention to the GOP front runner,
Mr. Donald Trump; hands down the GOP choice across the board, Mr. Trump
defeated a long list of other bidders, including Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and
others while seemingly speaking his mind and blasting the establishment on
everything from immigration to healthcare, sans jobs or income inequality but
focusing as well on any potential opponents motives to stop him from becoming
POTUS. Described as enthusiastic and
energetic, Mr. Trump attended a military school where his parents were hoping
to help him focus his talents, eventually Mr. Trump a scholar athlete, would
attend both Fordham and the University of Pennsylvania accomplishing a degree
in economics and business. In 1971, Mr.
Trump was given control over his parent’s companies (middle income apartments
in New York) and real estate investments and eventually go on to own parts of
Atlantic City, Florida, New York and several other spots in the nation’s
property gambits. Trump, like many other
business moguls, felt the sting of the real estate decline, reportedly going as
high as 900 million in debt, the financial and real estate mogul would have to
work hard over a decade to recover these losses and before announcing his
presidential bid, would tout being worth over a billion dollars (in reality,
according to Forbes, that number is actually under 500 million dollars). In 2000,
Mr. Trump first toyed with the idea of making a run for office, low voter turnout
in California stagnated that dream and he subsequently withdrew his bid,
reserving it for his now very active run. Mr. Trump in his life has been
registered in nearly every political party, most recently, Republican. It is no
secret that Mr. Trump is a highly controversial candidate, including scathing
remarks toward immigrants, women, building a wall, discrimination, trade and
even his opponents, these controversies caused many companies that had joint
ventures with Mr. Trump to withdraw their relationships. Mr. Trump responded
with law suits (many say this is his staple, suing others into his way of
thinking), but still has the influence to sway millions of voters to consider
him a viable candidate, so on the two subjects of education and healthcare
reforms, where does he stand and just how do we make America great again?

According to Mr. Trump’s website, when it comes to
Healthcare, we have been under a decade long disaster that needs a full repeal
and on day one as POTUS, Mr. Trump will call for a full repeal of the ACA and
start to implement a free market stance on health care choices in insurance;
rates will become more competitive by breaking down the cross state barriers on
costs, someone in California sees their same insurance a few hundred less in
Maine, they should be able to buy it at Maine’s prices, provided they reflect
the free market values. Note: The
problem with Free Market thinking, what the free market deems as fair to all,
determines the price for all, so if the FM’s want an increase, everyone pays
for it, regardless of income levels, this is true on all things in the Free
Market. Then, Mr. Trump looks at
allowing all persons to deduct health care costs from their taxes and work with
states who have persons on Medicaid and expand it to all persons at an “affordable”
rate (Note: the 1040 Long form already includes this as an option); my
question, what is affordable to a family of four making less than 25,000 a year
in total income, sadly, the website nor Mr. Trump’s campaign could answer this
other than listing that the best way to reduce Medicaid costs is to get people
to work, it only gets a mention with no viable jobs plan to back it up,
according to Mr. Trump’s campaign, “this will take some time”.

An interesting stance that current and future persons
interested in office all say, “these things take time”, American’s have a sense
of urgency thanks in part to Mr. Trump, will this sense of urgency be met with
disappointment if Mr. Trump fails to accomplish this task, yes - as has been
the case with every president before our next one and will be even after. Our truth glasses searched over and over
again for some comprehensive overview or insight as to how this candidate will
help those who are paying high tuition and loan rates now, sorry to report,
there isn’t one, only Mr. Trump saying, “Free College is a disastrous idea”. The issues listed on Mr. Trump’s campaign
website include: Immigration Reform, Tax Reform, Healthcare repeal and reform,
US-China Trade reforms (what about the other 186 countries?), Veteran’s
Administration Reform and that is it. No
talk of helping out Seniors who deal with Social Security issues, no mention of
those fighting a 2 year or longer battle for disability benefits, no speaking
about JOBS and how to stimulate an economy that must not be so great if we are
to make it great again here in the US, no mention of how to improve our foreign
relations or prepare our citizens against attacks from terror cells. Mr. Trump said, “We are too soft on
terrorists, we must go after their families as well”, Note: This kind of stance
is a war crime if carried out, see Geneva Convention and History for details as
to why.

In this article, we have covered platforms, stances,
touched a bit on some of the controversy surrounding the candidates and
included a taste of how the selection process started over 200 years ago. With each candidate, we have the ability to
see the differences in what they want, what they see as America in the coming
years, each with their own thoughts as to what it will take to get there or
what is needed to obtain that status quo.
What we don’t see is Vice Presidential persons with them, nor do we see
any unity behind each candidate as of yet from either party, including the GOP
who seemingly has a clear choice of candidate.
There once was a time when the candidates were selected on their
reputations, their experiences, their nobility, humanity and there was a time
when too much power in those systems allowed for the worst of the worst to be
in offices or run for them.
Investigation and thought lead to finance reforms, selection reforms and
now apparently include, mudslinging, name calling, inciting violence during
speechless with “go ahead beat the crap out of them” and more.

To allow the “fairness” of news to be heard, here are
some examples of the controversy surrounding each presidential candidate,
search terms used were (Candidate’s name) and Controversy in quotation marks to
help refine searches:

While this article comes to a close, with lots of information
to play with, I ask this of the candidates themselves, to be answered in ANY
platform they see fit: 1) When will the US Government pay back the money it has
borrowed from Social Security? 2) What is your biggest concern facing America
right now and how will you influence Congress and the people to fix it? 3) Will
you ask for and pursue term limits on everyone in office, no more than 2 terms
for anyone to serve in a public office? 4) Looking back at history and how the
selection process started, if it were up to the Congress to select your Vice
President, who do you think they would place next to you? 5) Would you change
the initial selection process to have a nationwide vote all at once, instead of
trying to win state by state? (In other words, Primaries get ONE Election Day
for the whole country same as the general election) seems millions of dollars
in campaigning and travel costs could be eliminated if it were a one day process,
but I digress. I invite each of you to sit down, write a response in
consideration to each question poised. I
am sure the people of this great nation want to know these questions and more
(by the way readers, feel free to use the comments section to add your own
questions about what you want from the Candidates, since they all are “for the
people” let’s find out just how much.

** Author’s Note**: I truly hope in your overviews of this article
and the links contained within, that each potential, current and future POTUS
candidate, as well as the many readers of this article and followers of this
platform, will gain the answers they seek and who knows, maybe change the
election process one more time for the betterment of all.

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